Dead Sea Scroll 7Q5 Recreation: Gospel of Mark?. Real papyrus about 2 by 1 1/2 inches mounted in a 5 by 7 inch frame. Jose O�Callaghan in his work New Testament Papyri in Cave 7 at Qumran? in 1972, later expanded by German scholar Carsten Peter Thiede in his work The Earliest Gospel Manuscript? in 1982, assert that 7Q5 is actually a fragment of the Gospel of Mark, chapter 6 verse 52-53.